OCEANSIDE
Five finalists have been selected to interview for the position of Oceanside police chief and one of them could be appointed by the end of March, according to an update from City Manager Deanna Lorson.
Lorson initially considered promoting someone from within the Police Department to fill the position quickly after former Police Chief Frank McCoy announced his retirement last July.
However, representatives of minority groups in the community asked for a more widespread recruitment to find somebody who would better reflect the city’s diversity. Lorson then slowed the process, surveyed the community’s thoughts on law enforcement, and hired an outside recruiter to conduct the search.
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Homelessness is hardly new in Oceanside, but there seems to be a growing intolerance of it.
In recent weeks, longtime residents have repeatedly called for the city to roust the transients from their camps, stop feeding them free meals, and get them out of town.
“No more Brother Benno’s,” resident Donna McGinty told the City Council at a recent meeting, referring to the soup kitchen near the city airport that has fed the homeless since 1983. “That has got to go.”
She and other speakers said services like Brother Benno’s and the Bread of Life Rescue Mission in Oceanside only perpetuate homelessness and allow people to continue lives of crime and drug addiction.